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Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patchesto code written for
NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy'server -- thus, the name Apache
Apple Computers - favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three monthslate in filing a
name for the business, and he threatened to call his company AppleComputers if the other
colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.
CISCO - its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco.
Google -the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of informationthe search-engine
would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol',a word for the number represented by
1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders,Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page
presented their project toan angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'
Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the webfrom a computer
anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up withthe business plan for the mail service,
he tried all kinds of names ending in'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters
"html" - theprogramming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred toas
HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.
HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether thecompany they founded
would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company'Moore Noyce' but that
was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so theyhad to settle for an acronym of INTegrated
ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes) - Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The LotusPosition' or
'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of TranscendentalMeditation (by Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi).
Microsoft - coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted toMICROcomputer
SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
Motorola - Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the timewas called Victrola.
ORACLE - Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA
(Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (acronym for:
One Real Asshole Called Larry Ellison)
Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse teamcap (with red and
white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it andhad to search for it desperately.
The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linuxhad an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if
found by anyone !
SUN - founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for StanfordUniversity
Network.
Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say 'dry' (asit was dry
copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying).The Greek root 'xer' means
dry.
Yahoo! - the word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver'sTravels'. It
represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and isbarely human. Yahoo!
founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the namebecause they considered themselves
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